Why do conservatives call MSNBC left leaning, when they actually gave Alan Keyes his own TV show....?

Question

...back in 2002? Fox News didn't offer him one. It is also obvious that he is on the extreme fare right (just look at his videos on YouTube).
MSNBC also gave Scarborough a TV show, and he is a former republican member of the House of Representatives. This proves they are the fair and balanced network.

Has Fox News ever given an entire block of programming time to someone from the Left? I wonder why that is....

Answer 1

Let's examine MSNBC's shows.

Joe Scarborough and Tucker Carlson on the right and Dan Abrams and Chris Matthews on the left. Reasonably fair and balanced in more than just words. The exception is Keith Olberman who is so good that he transcends mere politics.

OTOH there is Fox.

The sole liberal on the entire Fox network is Colmes. Occasionally they let Juan Williams, who is more a moderate, sneak into the mix. Other than that, Fox is a vast right-wing wasteland. If your idea of a liberal is Geraldo Rivera, you have bigger problems than just medication alone can fix.

Comparing the left-wing bias on MSNBC to the right-wing bias on Fox is like comparing the weight of a jackass' left nut to that of a herd of elephants.

Answer 2

Next time there is a big issue in front of congress watch C-SPAN for the day then watch MSNBC, FOX, CNN, ABC, CBS and anyone else you want and decide for yourself who acurately portrayed what happened in congress. I've done this on several occasions and I was amazed. I'm asking you to do this yourself so don't bash me for what I've found. All of those mentioned above except FOX took the days events and would pick sound bites that quite often misrepresented what the speach and discussion was. I didn't really buy the left wing media stereotype until I did this myself and if you do this you will see how bias, unfair and Democrat everyone except FOX is.

Alan Keyes has never held a Republican office in his life. He was an ambassador. He is less of a representative of the Republican party than Mike Gravel or Dennis Kusinich are for the Democrat party because they both at least are elected Democrats.
Chris Mathews was a speach writter for Jimmy Carter then worked for Tip O'Neil. George Snuffalupagus was Clinton's press secretary and both of them are on major broadcast television which gets far more viewers than cable. FOX news has Juan Williams and Mara Liason both from NPR in their round table. You can't get more liberal than Juan and 2 conservatives and 2 liberals is fair and balanced not like ABC where they have Clinton's press secretary moderate the round table with 3 liberals and then occasionally let George Will say a word or two. Cokie Roberts' entire family are high ups in Democrat elected offices and she's remained very active politically. 94% of Washington Reporters are declared Democrats, 2% are declared Republicans and 4% claim they're independent. Get a clue.

Hey B. C. Mack - Republicans are willing to go anywhere and debate anyone. Democrats can't take any hard questions and won't even go on FOX news for a debate. If they can't handle FOX news how do you expect them to handle Iran or any other leader that might question their decisions?

Answer 3

This is very simple. MSNBC runs stories directly from leftwing blogs without checking to see if they are true or not. When lefties like Jane Hall says you are way over the line on reporting you must be about 3 miles left of Lenin.

Answer 4

They gave Alan Colmes some time on the Air but Hannity does all the important interviews and everything on the show is done to make Colmes look stupid. Not that I don't think he already is.

MSNBC is what it is, it leans more to the left then it does stay in the middle but I will give credit where it is due, they attempt to be fair and balance.

Edit: People seem to forget that a journlists job is to ask questions, however people who support the President don't seem to understand that. They would rather you just accept whatever the president wants without question.

Answer 5

They call anyone that does not agree with them 100% of the time Liberal! They cannot hold their own in a debate so they just do away with the opposition like they have on Faux News and all the Righty-Tighty Radio stations.

Reinstate the equal time rule! What possible reason could you give not to? Other than the Right is too chicken to debate the Left and the Independants!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode47/usc_sec_47_00000315----000-.html

http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/communications_rights/restore_the_fairness_doctrine

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Rep._believes_Democratic_media_reform_bill_0121.html

http://www.mediaaccess.org/programs/civicdisc/#Reasonable%20Access%20to%20the

http://usredtory.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/another-appeal-to-restore-equal-timefairness-doct/

Funny they want equal time to get elected but they do not want everyone to have equal time in the media, otherwise they would reinstate it!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/romney-says-nothing-othe_b_75607.html

Answer 6

Because they don't really know and they just parrot each other. If they ever bothered to check it out they would see there are pundit shows for liberals and conservatives both. It's really superior to either Fox or CNN as far as political diversity of thought goes.

Answer 7

Colmes, Rivera, Shepherd Smith.

Answer 8

And it is not there now. All night time shows are left wing all afternoon shows are left wing, Conservative ads have a hard time running. Joe is a throw away. Fox has balance

Answer 9

And what is the family relationship between Fox and Bush?

Answer 10

I think your right. I find MSNBC right leaning.